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Although Ethereum is the ICO favored go-to platform, there is a trend emerging towards migration away from its native ERC20 token to home-baked alternatives once projects get underway.

Despite Ethereum’s undisputed dominance owing to the ease of setting up ERC20 tokens to facilitate ICOs, issues such as scalability and transaction speed problems, along with network clogging, have had the effect of driving ICOs to look elsewhere for a better solution.

Ethereum’s ERC20 technical standard has essentially been used by startups as a kind of incubator, it being the primary tool that allows creating tokens for trading.

KIN’s promotional PR suggests “incredible speed and scalability” along with security and scalability after the shift to its own blockchain. The concept of migrating in this way, of course, is not new. Others who have made this move, notably EOS and Tron, also took the migration route away from the Ethereum blockchain which got them up and running.

Since the launch of the EOS mainnet earlier this year, EOS have scooped up EOSBet, Medipedia, Tixico, Billionaire Token, Insights Network, WAX and Sentinel Protocol. Justin Sun, Tron’s founder and CEO, said that their shift from ERC20 protects their user’s interests.

T-21 days until Mainnet launch! #TRON will be one of the most competitive mainstream blockchains with the most users. We graduated #1 from the ETH platform with 1.08M+ users, more than OMG and EOS combined. ETH was just a prelude. Now for the main act $TRXpic.twitter.com/Oyj4XN1T7l

Sun added, “We will compete face to face with Ethereum, and we have confidence we will build a large ecosystem; a much large ecosystem than the Ethereum.”

However, despite such fighting talk from Tron’s top man, the sheer size of the Ethereum blockchain means that it is unlikely that any sleep will be lost just yet for Ethereum backers but migration from ERC20 is a space well worth watching.